Twist is a richly allusive novel, with echoes of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad and Philip Roth.
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The dread that AI evokes seems a distraction from the more disquieting scrutiny of humanity’s own dark nature.
Climate fiction is a type of storytelling that imagines how climate change could shape our world.
The trauma plot, and its exploration of the depths of victimhood and suffering, has been the novel’s passport to notoriety.
There are many books where characters take fiction too seriously and are driven mad.
Elegy, Southwest, by Miles Franklin shortlisted author Madeleine Watts, weaves together the themes of imminent personal and environmental collapse.
Han Kang’s characters have looked squarely at histories of state-sanctioned murder and carry the wounds of those histories.
Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its multiple endings.
The magazine has gained a cult following, partly by branding itself as a beacon of intellectualism. Here’s how it has changed, and stayed the same, over 100 years.
These poems express the wonder and complexities of romantic love.
In this course, eight professors share their disciplinary perspectives to help students analyze proposed interventions for increasing wildfire risks.
This comedy strips away much of the complexity of Goethe’s masterpiece.
Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway was revolutionary for its challenge to the novel form and its representation of time.
Life stages, ageing and creativity are important themes in Atonement.
It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust victims went through.
Forster composed most of this novel in a flurry of concentrated activity while the world was emerging, traumatised, from a global influenza pandemic.
This series offers insightful new ways to think about and interpret classic books and artworks.
Reading and maintaining a human connection have a vital role to play as extreme events that have long served as the stuff of dystopian fiction simply become a part of everyday life.
Henry James’ ‘The Princess Casamassima’ tells a story of political radicalism in a time of economic inequality. But even James ran up against the limits of putting himself in the mind of a killer.
Israel’s divided education system – based on nationality and religious observance – serves as a test case for exploring controversial education policies in America.
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor, Creative Writing and Literary Studies, Victoria University
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Lecturer, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Contemporary English Literature and Critical Theory, University College Dublin
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate in Creative Writing, The Open University
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Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, La Trobe University
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Professor of English Literature, Anglia Ruskin University